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Thr storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789, marks the beginning of the French Revolution and the downfall of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

Bastille Day commemorates the actions of Parisians in 1789 when thousands stormed the symbol of royal power and forced the king to defer to the National Assembly.

Although Catherine the Great corresponded with Voltaire, Diderot, and Montesquieu, her reforms never infringed on her autocratic principles as absolute ruler in Russia.

George Washington assumed the presidency as Europe began a long period of strife begun by the 1789 French Revolution, events balanced by crucial domestic problems.

Napoleon Bonaparte was born on Corsica and became a military hero during the French Revolution. He declared himself Consul for Life and later Emperor of France.

Guide to the plot, characters and history of Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier (1896).